AltiPiani is a project by Roberto Farneti, Van Der and Di/Da. Two or three times a year AltiPiani leads you into two apartments of Via Andreas Hofer, 36 in the city center of Bolzano for a special occasion. It will take you to the upper floors – the “piani alti” – of the building to feature a series of art exhibitions within the domestic spaces of the third and fourth floors.

After World War II Giorgio de Chirico organized his exhibitions in the apartment in via Mario de’ Fiori in Rome, at the beginning of the 1990s Hans Ulrich Obrist opened his home in San Gallo for The Kitchen Show. As Gaston Bachelard wrote: “the house allows us to dream in peace”. AltiPiani is an overview (from the upper floors you always have beautiful views) on the work of young artists that we value and promote. Besides, the name of the project refers to a flat territory placed at high altitudes and it is therefore a tribute to famous and beautiful places in these areas such as Siusi, Villandro, and Salto. But the name of the project is also a pun that, with irony, recalls the echelons of power, the so-called Piani Alti. Here, the power we are talking about is the power of art.